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Motherwell, Lanarkshire Steelworks View showing scrap shear, Airdrie Iron Company
SC 543589
Description Motherwell, Lanarkshire Steelworks View showing scrap shear, Airdrie Iron Company
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 543589
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lanarkshire Steelworks, Flemington, Lanarkshire This works was founded by the Lanarkshire Steel Co Ltd, largely rebuilt c1899, and absorbed by Colvilles. Initially it made a large range of shipbuilding and structural sections, and boiler and ship plates. Under Colvilles it lost plate manufacture. This view shows a scrap shear made by the Airdrie Iron Co in 1897. The lean-to shed protected the electric motor and gear drive to the machine. This machine is now preserved at Summerlee Heritage in Coatbridge. The works closed in 1978 as part of the British Steel Corporation's policy of phasing out open-hearth steelmaking in favour of the basic oxygen process. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/141/9
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